Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv prt] an [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas Adlercreutz of the Central Board of National Antiquities , Sweden , has pointed out an error in the guide to statutes of limitation published on page 2 of the last issue of The Art Newspaper . |
| 2 | Thus there has grown up an interest in feminist ‘ herstory ’ ; etymologically impossible , the word emphasizes that his-story has been just that — the history of men . |
| 3 | The experience is made doubly uncomfortable because the man facing them is Dr Giovanni Agnelli , the founder 's grandson , director for 49 years , chairman for 26 , and the man who has built up an enterprise with a turnover of £26bn and 300,000 employees . |
| 4 | Talking about his future , Keith says that he has turned down an approach from Rugby and it 's up to Gloucester now whether they keep him on . |
| 5 | Defoe 's Roxana explains why she has turned down an offer of marriage from a Dutch merchant : ‘ … |
| 6 | The mother of the W children in Orkney , whose allegations led to the 1991 dawn raids , has turned down an offer of £100,000 from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board . |
| 7 | Secondly , the use of computers has sparked off an interest in the development of new , more clearly-defined methods in cartography while , at the same time , relieving the cartographer from the labour of manual drafting . |
| 8 | General Sherman … has raised up an army on the four sides of Joseph just when it seemed most probable that he was about to escape … |
| 9 | BP Chemicals has set up an enquiry into the incident and the site has been visited by representatives of the Health and Safety Executive . |
| 10 | Mr Litman , who has set up an office in Moscow , is unperturbed by his rivals ' plans and promises that his ageing ex-spies will provide ‘ astounding new material that will shatter myths and create new controversies . ’ |
| 11 | Meanwhile 88Open , which boasts that some 80% of its business comes from Europe , has set up an office in the UK , under the charge of Steve Heath , previously from Motorola 's semiconductor operation . |
| 12 | He will also be aware that Gwynedd has set up an inquiry into those incidents . |
| 13 | In the meantime MEB has set up an inquiry into what happened . |
| 14 | Even though X/Open no longer has any formal relationship with the Foundation , following the Cambridge , Massachusetts-based group 's withdrawal from its board at the end of last year , the open systems standards body has nailed down an agreement with OSF which will see all DCE specifications integrated into its Common Applications Environment , CAE , interfaces over the next 12 to 18 months . |
| 15 | Christine Hoogenkamp has taken up an appointment as Editor with the press office of the Netherlands Reformed Church in Leidschendam . |
| 16 | Private Eye , Punch 's chief persecutor , has taken out an advertisement in the final edition to woo potential readers . |
| 17 | " The government has thrown down an apple of discord which has burst into flames and flooded the country " . |
| 18 | Twenty-odd years earlier , I 'd picked up an idea from the marvellously creative Bill Brown who was Director of Billy Graham 's Crusades in 1966–7 . |
| 19 | Cara nodded , and elatedly went on to tell them that she had heard , only that morning when she 'd looked in at her office to check her post before driving up to Cheltenham , that she 'd pulled off an interview with none other than Vendelin Gajdusek . |
| 20 | ‘ So do I. We 've had the spy-glass trained on his approach bearing and they 'd have picked up an explosion for sure . ’ |
| 21 | The crew of the Type 21 frigate HMS Avenger also claims to have shot down an Exocet with one . |
| 22 | Children are believed to be more vulnerable than adults , who are thought to have built up an immunity after a similar , but much less virulent virus appeared last year . |
| 23 | He said engineers had carried out an inspection of the plane — with advice from British Aerospace — and had found no damage . |
| 24 | Scottish Enterprise said it had carried out an audit at Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Ltd after the allegations were made in a series of unsigned documents passed to the press and the SE chairman , Prof Donald MacKay . |
| 25 | She had complained of stomach problems after returning and doctors at first thought she had picked up an infection in Africa . |
| 26 | There , with an expert hand , he had picked out an assortment of dresses , skirts and blouses for her to try . |
| 27 | It had turned down an offer by the UN , under which Iraqi exports of up to 1,000,000 bpd would be permitted if the revenues were spent on humanitarian aid [ see p. 38742 ] , arguing that the conditions were unacceptable . |
| 28 | ‘ And now you 've built up an appetite for sampling some of the fish which may have been brought ashore here ? ’ |
| 29 | It was only ten minutes , as she had used up an hour in the swimming-baths . |
| 30 | Though the CPRS had drawn up an agenda in four parts , starting with our relationship with the external world , we soon found ourselves in the middle of a second reading debate over the whole field . |